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Fast food workers wage biggest-ever strike Nov. 10
November 10, 2015Fast-food workers will wage their biggest-ever strike Tuesday - one year from Election Day - with walkouts hitting a record 270 cities from Detroit to Denver.
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Labor launches Latino voter education program
November 9, 2015The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement launched a national campaign aimed at educating Latinos on the importance of voting.
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Today in labor history: The CIO is created in 1935
November 9, 2015The creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was announced 80 years ago on this day.
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Today in history: Saudi women protest by driving cars
November 6, 2015Forty-seven women in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, drove their cars in a 14-car convoy to protest the driving ban.
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Fifty professors arrested at City University of New York protest
November 5, 2015"The future of our students' education is at stake. Our action today is part of a long struggle for racial and educational justice."
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Today in history: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 100 years persevering for peace
November 5, 2015A number of events taking place in and near NYC celebrate the centennial of an organization some call "the conscience of the peace movement."
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Today in history: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzkhak Rabin assassinated
November 4, 2015The assassination of Rabin was the culmination of Israeli right-wing dissent over the Oslo peace process.
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Remembering poet, Spanish Civil War vet Ramon Durem
November 3, 2015Although of mixed heritage, he identified as African American, and his poems impacted the Black Power movement as a cultural inspiration.
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